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Grassroots Lobbying and
Big Tech


April 28th via Zoom
12:30 to 2:00 PM








About the Program








[cid:image002.jpg@01D8500F.DD932850]<https://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/event/grassroots-lobbying-and-big-tech/>The use of ads in microtargeting, which is dependent on the collection and analysis of information about users, raises concerns from privacy advocates. With the Cambridge-Analytica scandal exposing the risks associated with microtargeting in political contexts, these concerns have been heightened. The debate around microtargeting has recently further intensified, with the understanding that big technology companies leverage microtargeting to mobilize their users to take tech-friendly political action.

We will be joined by Professor Abbey Stemler and Professor Ira Rubinstein, who will discuss the challenges presented by this relatively new form of political power and its effects on individual autonomy and deliberative democracy.








About the Speakers



[cid:image003.jpg@01D8500F.DD932850]Abbey Stemler<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__kelley.iu.edu_faculty-2Dresearch_faculty-2Ddirectory_profile.html-3Fid-3DASTEMLER&d=DwIGaQ&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=WW3ImeMF_nulY0KDQp9XKUqKP8NeGG8FoNbZ4lOv0-A&m=74FY52yV_uHo9MEAH-eaeOeKuNnQ0peN62Uuc9r01vM&s=ZvoJOu9WhhZjSEuYx1CuCZG6qMzmkIIaOss2_afpWiY&e= > is an associate professor of business law and ethics at Indiana University.  She is a leading scholar on the regulation of the sharing economy and platform-based businesses.  Her research aims to expose the evolving realities of Internet-based innovations and find ways to effectively regulate them without hindering their beneficial uses.  As she sees it, many modern firms inhabit a world that operates under alien physics—where free is often costly and “smart” is not always wise.  She therefore employs tools and insights from economics, behavioral science, regulatory theory, and rhetoric to understand how we, as a society, can better protect consumers, privacy, and democracy.
Professor Stemler is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center or Internet & Society at Harvard University, practicing attorney, entrepreneur, and consultant for governments and multinational organizations such as the World Bank Group.  She is nationally recognized for her research, teaching, and service and is the recipient of multiple awards including the Academy of Legal Studies in Business’s Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award, Indiana University’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, and the Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship.
Professor Stemler’s research has been covered by an array of outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and San Francisco Chronicle.

[cid:image005.jpg@01D8500F.DD932850]Ira Rubinstein<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__its.law.nyu.edu_facultyprofiles_index.cfm-3Ffuseaction-3Dprofile.overview-26personid-3D30084&d=DwIGaQ&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=WW3ImeMF_nulY0KDQp9XKUqKP8NeGG8FoNbZ4lOv0-A&m=74FY52yV_uHo9MEAH-eaeOeKuNnQ0peN62Uuc9r01vM&s=7TvnSajQc16W14austWwWQyGSfkCBsyDyJMVRAdRo-I&e= > is a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute. His research interests include Internet privacy, electronic surveillance law, big data, voters’ privacy, EU data protection law, and privacy engineering. Rubinstein lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics on several occasions. Recent papers include “The Future of Self-Regulation is Co-Regulation,” “Anonymization and Risk,” and “Voter Privacy in the Age of Big Data.” Rubinstein has also completed a work in progress entitled “Privacy Localism.”

Prior to joining the ILI, Rubinstein spent 17 years in Microsoft’s Legal and Corporate Affairs department, most recently as Associate General Counsel in charge of the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group. Before coming to Microsoft, he was in private practice in Seattle, specializing in immigration law. Rubinstein graduated from Yale Law School in 1985. He has served on the President’s Export Council, Subcommittee on Encryption (1998-2001); the Editorial Board of the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine (2003); the Board of Directors of the Center for Democracy and Technology (2010-2016); as Rapporteur, EU-US Privacy Bridges Project, which was presented at the 2015 International Conference of Privacy and Data Protection Commissioners in Amsterdam, 28-29 October 2015; and the Organizing Committee, Privacy by Design Workshops, Computing Research Association (2015-2016). He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum.


Tech Ethics at the Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity:

[cid:image006.jpg@01D8500F.DD932850]Professor Yafit Lev-Aretz<https://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty-profile/yafit-lev-aretz/> is the Director of the Robert Zicklin Center’s Program on Tech Ethics. Tech Ethics examines the ethical dilemmas associated with the various technology applications, including in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data. The tech ethics program is designed to increase awareness of such ethical dilemmas and foster a conversation on the positive and negative impacts of technology. The program also aims to equip future leaders with the insights and perspectives needed to make complex decisions about the use of technology in business and society.

Professor Lev-Aretz is a tech policy expert, researching the fascinating relationship between the law, technology, and society.  She has written about information privacy, the growing use of algorithmic decision-making, intrusive means of news dissemination, choice architecture in the age of big data, and the ethical challenges posed by machine learning and artificially intelligent systems. Additionally, her research highlights the legal treatment of beneficial uses of data, such as data philanthropy and the data for good movement, striving to strike a delicate balance between solid privacy protections and competing values.








When?


Thursday, April 28th from 12:30 to 2:00 PM








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